Re: what about nota bene

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

people talk about nota bene as though it were an updated xywrite.

I tried it, and thought it was more like word than like xywrite.

things I like about xy
-- being able to write without formatting first
-- being able to change margins etc fast and easy
-- one step combinations to remove a word, or to the end of a line, or to
the end of a sentence, or a paragraph
-- 9 windows
-- command line controls, not mouse
-- being able to write cusom routines into the keyboard. (I started with New
York Times keyboard, now highly customized from there)
-- wonderful spell check, much better than word
very simple operation. When I started I had an it guy who set it up to work
like a typewriter, and then we added custom features as we thought of them
and so forth
did I miss something in nota bene? I just tried it for a few times, then
gave up because it seemed to want me to make a lot of decisions -- the kind
of decisions I leave to typesetters -- before I started writing. If it can
actually work like XYwrite, in a windows program, that would be great.

andy t